Gragas with Gnar
How to Synergize Gragas and Gnar
based on 477 Gragas with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Gnar
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Advice to Understand How Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Gragas Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Gragas perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Gnar, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Gnar does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Gnar on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Gnar
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect ally for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Gnar is a below average companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 45.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Gragas and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players must be cautious when finding Gnar comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gragas players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Gragas and Gnar together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to synergize with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Gragas and Gnar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other common builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Gragas players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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